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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;smallaxe, post: 10141854, member: 13430&quot;]In the late 1800&#039;s Kodak began introducing simple, affordable cameras, film, and film processing, which allowed people to begin taking their own photographs. That&#039;s what your photos look like, and if that&#039;s the case, those are likely gelatin silver prints. The unsightly silver mirroring effect is caused by silver ions migrating to the surface. Acid is part of that process, and if the photo album paper contains acid, that can hasten the degradation of old photos through silver mirroring. I have hundreds of family photos from 1900-1910. The ones mounted in albums seem to suffer from silver mirroring more than the loose photos. The paper in those albums looks similar to the paper in which your photos are mounted. The earliest Kodak cameras took photos in a round format, but before long they made cameras that took photos in rectangular format. Rectangular photos though, could be printed in circular or oval format. Among our old photos, there are some shots for which we have more than one print, with one print being full rectangular, and another being cropped oval like yours.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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